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Samuel T. Gladding is a Professor of Counseling at Wake Forest University as well as a Fellow and a past president of the American Counseling Association. Dr. Gladding is the author of a number of Pearson books including Family Therapy: History, Theories and Practice, 7th Edition (2019) and Counseling: A Comprehensive Profession, 8th Edition (2018). Gladding is also the author of several American Counseling Association texts, including the Counseling Dictionary, 4th Edition (2018) and the Creative Arts in Counseling, 5th Edition (2016). In addition to writing, Dr. Gladding has been a Fulbright Specialist to China and Turkey, and has taught counseling courses in Austria, the Philippines, Malaysia, Mexico, Canada, Singapore, Ireland, and Estonia. He has taken students to study mental health and creativity in South Africa and Denmark and has researched the relationship between humor and mental health at Oxford. Gladding is married to Claire Tillson Gladding and they are the parents of three adult children.

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